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The first widespread use of information technology in health care was automated claims processing. Electronic processing of medical claims by care providers and insurance companies speeds up the approval of claims and payments to clinicians. Electronic health records (EHRs) allow patient data to be shared across the care spectrum by primary care physicians, nurses, labs and specialists.

Want better care from your doctor or nurse? There's an app for that - actually about 8,700 of them, and they are helping future health care practitioners train to provide better patient care. In nursing, the number of students using mobile applications is growing.

A detailed analysis regarding President Obama's Health Care Reform

Bringing Immunity to Every Community What is the vaccination rate in your community? ANA is working to eliminate vaccine-preventable diseases through a national immunization partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Nurses play a key role in increasing vaccination rates, so we have created a resource page of nursing-specific information, education and tools.

ANA is among a group of organizations that launched a new comprehensive online resource - HealthCareandYou.org - to give Americans easy-to-understand information about the health care law so they can make informed health care decisions for themselves and their families.

The traditional paper charting system used by numerous health care facilities is costly and time-consuming - it's yesterday's news. The American Recovery Act of 2009 will require all medical offices to have electronic health records by 2014. What are the benefits of electronic medical records?

An Electronic Health Record (EHR) is an electronic version of a patients medical history, that is maintained by the provider over time, and may include all of the key administrative clinical data relevant to that persons care under a particular provider, including demographics, progress notes, problems, medications, vital signs, past medical history, immunizations, laboratory data and radiology reports The EHR automates access to information and has the potential to streamline the clinician's workflow.

Telehealth is the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education

Our Vision: Transform health and health care through nursing informatics Our Mission: To advance nursing informatics practice, education, policy and research through a unified voice of nursing informatics organizations. We represent thousands of nurses and bring together nursing informatics groups that function separately at local, regional, national and international levels.

Today's Top Health and Drug News Medical Author: Omudhome Ogbru, PharmD Medical and Pharmacy Editor: Jay W. Marks, MD Pharmacists and other health care professionals are diligent about ensuring that patients receive the correct medication. However, they are human, and once in a while they make mistakes.

Ministarstvo zdravstva Federacije BiH. Reform and reconstruction of health care system can not be carried out without health information systems and modern information and communication technologies. In other hand, health information system of The Federation of BiH must be an object of both reform and reconstruction.

Epidemiology A combination of health statistics from various sources, used to derive information about health status, health care, provision and use of services and health impact Informatics Hospital information system A system that provides information management features that hospitals need for daily business Features Pt tracking, billing and administrative programs; may include clinical features Q.

statistics, research, & general health care information

Our Vision: Transform health and health care through nursing informatics Our Mission: To advance nursing informatics practice, education, policy and research through a unified voice of nursing informatics organizations. We represent thousands of nurses and bring together nursing informatics groups that function separately at local, regional, national and international levels.